Thoughts on Antiquity

Ditto. Please make sure to read Kevin Edgecomb’s Biblical Studies Carnival XXVI. It is very, very well done and includes much information I have neglected to mention.

You never know who is planning to translate something.  Scholars don’t talk as much as they might, either, which leads to silly situations, such as three English translations of Eusebius Onomasticon being released in a period of a couple of years (including the long forgotten Wolf translation which appears online).
I enquired a couple of weeks […]

I found today that I could not access books.live.com, despite having language=EN-US.  I presume this means that Microsoft have ramped up their decision to restrict content to US readers only. 
This is most annoying, since a lot of their content is supplied by UK libraries such as the Bodleian.  Indeed I was searching to see if […]

Eusebius composed a work in three books on problems or contradictions in the gospels, and solutions for them.  The first two books were addressed to a certain Stephanus and addressed 16 ‘problems’ with the genealogies given at the start of Matthew and Luke.  The other book was addressed to one Marinus, and discussed problems at […]

By chance I stumbled on some online images from medieval Latin mss, often of classical or patristic authors:
http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/clh_intro.html - Intro
 http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/clh.html - the Mss; Cicero, Isidore, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Lucretius, Macrobius, Ovid, Plutarch, Priscian, Publilius Syrus, Sallust, Seneca, Solinus, Terence, Virgil.
http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/flh_intro.html - Intro to fragments
http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/flh.html - Fragments; Ambrose, Augustine, Bede, (Ps.)Hegesippus, Isidore, Jerome, Livy, Quintus Curtius, Seneca, Terence.
http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/mdr.html - and some […]

Following up with a short rejoinder to Michael Bird’s response to my post about the Cynic hypothesis, I will make a few brief comments.
First, the criticisms were not directly specifically at Dr. Bird, but it is safe to say that the opinion expressed in his original post is fairly representative of general, scholarly thinking about […]

My new webhosts, www.site5.com, have seen fit to take down all my websites without notice after receiving a complaint of spam, supposedly from ‘Feedback’ at my domain.  Needless to say it was nothing to do with me.  I apologise if this causes a problem to anyone, and I hope that they will reinstate my service quickly.  […]

Bill Poser over at Language Log has some rather tragic news about Classical languages:

On the way back from the LSA meeting, having finished the light reading that I had brought with me, I bought Steve Berry’s The Alexandria Link. At pp. 418-419 we read:

These words were chiseled into the granite below.

CVSTOS RERVM PRVDENTIA

“Prudence is the […]

The Cynic hypothesis is, in my opinion, one of the most unfairly attacked ideas in NT scholarship. For example, Michael Bird listed it among “the worst ideas to gain currency in NT scholarship,” (#3, cf. #11) and seems to be uniformly agreed upon in the comments section. While I certainly do not ascribe […]

I was fascinated to discover today that a reasonable number of reprints of Syriac texts are for sale at reasonable prices online at Lulu.com. These can be rather cheaper than reprints from Gorgias press, for instance. Quality is unknown, tho. Quite a number of Alphone Mingana’s works are there. Search for ‘Assyrian’ or ‘Syriac’.
Postscript (12/1/8).  […]